Hi! I’m Alicia Renee! I started this blog as a place for me to document my adventures in life navigating a new city after moving to Atlanta, GA in 2014.
I’ve been blogging since my college days (2008-’12) when I wrote about being a first -generation college student navigating a new world (shout-out to bipolar queen diaries), and my living abroad experience for my senior year of college (shout-out to bipolar queen adventures). Good times. If you’ve been reading my work since then, THANK YOU! I appreciate you riding the wave of my evolution and commitment to impromptu change when things get boring!
Naturally a wanderer, moving to a new city with only two contacts was just the adventure I needed after finding myself trapped in the cycle of monotony. And now I’m about to embark on that journey again in San Francisco.
Being “in the city” has become a retreat for me. It’s a place in my mind where I go to process the things I feel, see, and hope to emote in the books & journals I enjoy writing. It’s also external places that bring me joy and peace as I reflect on them and the emotions experiencing them brought me.
That’s what you’ll find here: my thoughts, my rambles, a few of my fav books, places and items that bring me joy.